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Employee competition : covenants, confidentiality, and garden leave /

"Employee Competition: Covenants, Confidentiality, and Garden Leave is a comprehensive and practical text for solicitors, barristers and in-house lawyers practising in employment law, and human resource professionals. It provides detailed analysis of the full range of issues that are encountere...

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Other Authors: Goulding, Paul.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Edition:2nd ed.
Subjects:
Covenants not to compete > Great Britain.
Confidential business information > Law and legislation > Great Britain.
Leave of absence > Law and legislation > Great Britain.
Labor contract > Great Britain.
Actions and defenses > Great Britain.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Duties
  • 3. Confidential Information and the Database Right
  • 4. Garden Leave
  • 5. Restrictive Covenants
  • 6. Vendor-Purchaser Agreements, and Other Commercial Agreements
  • 7. The International Dimension
  • 8. Competition, Sport, Human Rights, and Intellectual Property Law
  • 9. Pre-Action Steps
  • 10. Injunctions and Other Interim Remedies
  • 11. Damages and Other Remedies
  • 12. Practice and Procedure
  • 1.
  • Introduction
  • Aim
  • Structure of the book
  • Restraint of trade
  • 2.
  • Duties
  • Sources of duties
  • Who owns duties?
  • Good faith and fidelity
  • Diverting business opportunities
  • Companies Act 2006
  • Economic torts and the liabilities of third parties
  • Team moves
  • Checklist
  • 3.
  • Confidential Information and the Database Right
  • The duty of confidence: an overview
  • What is confidential information?
  • Express confidentiality clauses
  • Defences
  • Remedies
  • Database protection
  • Checklist
  • 4.
  • Garden Leave
  • Introduction
  • The rule against specific performance of contracts of personal service
  • The emergence of garden leave
  • Garden leave clauses
  • Imposition of garden leave by the employer
  • Enforcement of garden leave by the court
  • Checklist
  • 5.
  • Restrictive Covenants
  • The general approach to restrictive covenants
  • Incorporating and changing restrictive covenants
  • Is it a restraint?
  • Repudiation
  • Construction
  • Legitimate interests
  • Reasonableness
  • Severance
  • Discretion
  • Restrictive covenants and TUPE
  • Checklist
  • 6.
  • Vendor-Purchaser Agreements, and Other Commercial Agreements
  • Introduction
  • Vendor-purchaser agreements
  • Partnerships
  • Other commercial agreements
  • Checklist
  • 7.
  • The International Dimension
  • Introduction
  • The rules applicable to the relationship between employer and employee
  • The international dimension and the recruiting employer
  • Flow charts
  • 8.
  • Competition, Sport, Human Rights, and Intellectual Property Law
  • Introduction
  • Competition law
  • Sports cases
  • Human rights concepts
  • Intellectual property
  • 9.
  • Pre-Action Steps
  • Introduction
  • The claimant employer
  • The defendant employee
  • The defendant employer
  • 10.
  • Injunctions and Other Interim Remedies
  • Introduction
  • Interim injunctions
  • Other interim orders
  • Final injunctions
  • Contempt of court
  • Checklist
  • 11.
  • Damages and Other Remedies
  • Introduction
  • Compensatory damages for the breach of contract
  • Restitutionary or gain-based damages for breach of contract
  • Contractual damages for breach of confidence
  • Exemplary damages
  • Liquidated damages
  • An account of profits and equitable damages
  • Delivery up and destruction orders
  • Tracing
  • Declarations
  • Alternative remedies
  • making an election
  • Remedies against a third party
  • Interim payment
  • Checklist
  • 12.
  • Practice and Procedure
  • The Civil Procedure Rules
  • Statements of case
  • Applications for interim relief
  • Disclosure
  • Evidence
  • Trial
  • Judgements and orders
  • Appeals
  • Costs
  • Mediations and settlement
  • Appendices
  • Appendix 1: Computer Forensic Investigations
  • Appendix 2: Sample Employee Duties Clauses
  • Appendix 3: Sample Confidential Information Clauses
  • Appendix 4: Sample Garden Leave Clauses
  • Appendix 5: Sample Particulars of Claim and Interim Injunction in Garden Leave Case
  • Appendix 6: Drafting Restrictive Covenants: A Note
  • Appendix 7: Sample Restrictive Covenants (Employment)
  • Appendix 8: Sample Restrictive Covenants (Share and Business Sale and Partnership)
  • Appendix 9: Sample Pre-Action Letters
  • Appendix 10: Sample Witness Statement in Support of Application for Interim Injunction to Restrain Breach of Restrictive Covenant
  • Appendix 11: Sample Prayer for Relief for Inclusion in Particulars of Claim
  • Appendix 12: Summaries of Cases on Restrictive Covenants.

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